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"Kings throughout medieval and early modern Europe had extraconjugal sexual partners. Only in France, however, did the royal mistress become a quasi-institutionalized political position. Tracy Adams and Christine Adams explore the emergence and evolution of the role played by the French royal mistress through detailed portraits of nine powerful women : Agnès Sorel, Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly, Diane de Poitiers, Gabrielle d'Estrées, Françoise Louise de La Baume Le Blanc, Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Françoise d'Aubigné, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, and Jeanne Bécu. Beginning in the fifteenth century, key structures converged to create a space at court for the royal mistress. The first was an idea of gender already in place : that while women were legally inferior to men, they were men's equals in competence. Because of their legal subordinacy, queens were considered to be the safest regent for their husbands, and, subsequently, the royal mistress was the surest counterpoint to the royal favorite. Second, the Renaissance was a period during which people began to experience space as theatrical. This shift to a theatrical world opened up new ways of imagining political guile, which came to be positively associated with the royal mistress. Still, the role had to be activated by an intelligent, charismatic woman associated with a king who sought women as advisors. This book covers the fascinating particulars of their histories at court. Thoroughly researched and compellingly narrated, this important study explains why the tradition of a politically powerful royal mistress materialized at the French court, but nowhere else in Europe. It will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the French monarchy, women and royalty, and gender studies

France --- Kings and rulers --- Paramours --- History --- Court and courtiers --- France - Kings and rulers - Paramours - History --- France - Court and courtiers - History --- Rois et souverains --- Noblesse --- Femmes --- Maîtresses --- Histoire. --- Activité politique --- Courts and courtiers. --- Favoris et favorites --- Femmes et politique --- Paramours. --- Maîtresses --- France. --- History.